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Join Montpelier’s Sr. Research Historian Hilarie Hicks as she discusses Montpelier’s duPont family history, shows personal photos of the duPonts at Montpelier, and reveals some surprising connections between the Madisons and duPonts.
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What does a #President do if the #WhiteHouse is uninhabitable?
Rent a new house! That's what #JamesMadison did on Sept. 8, 1814, moving into the #OctagonHouse after British troops burned the White House.
National Photo Company collection, Library of Congress, 1910-1926.
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#OTD 1787 the #ConstituionalConvention appointed a Committee of Style “to revise the
stile of and arrange the articles which had been agreed to by the House," including #JamesMadison.
Gouverneur Morris was the lead writer, penning “We, the People of the United States...”
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Episode #1 of Montpelier's new podcast series, "Consider the Constitution" drops TODAY!
Host Dr. Katie Crawford Lackey sits down with scholar Dr. Lynn Uzzell and discusses the Bill of Rights. What they are. Why they are so important. And whether they protect individuals today the way Madison conceived of them.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
📸 Clint Schemmer.
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"It is in the spirit of gratitude and remembrance that I join you as the President and CEO of James Madison’s Montpelier."
Read a message from Montpelier’s new President & CEO, Eola Lewis Dance.
🔗 https://www.montpelier.org/learn/message-from-eolalewisdance?utm_content=buffercc875&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Photo by Sharen Montgomery, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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Today is #NationalReadABookDay!
What are you reading right now?
Comment below! ⬇️
Need a new history read?
Check out our online Museum Shop!
https://shop.montpelier.org/shop/books-office/6
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
217 followers · 240 posts · Server historians.social#OTD the Constitutional Convention unanimously approved the Copyright and Patent Clause. Madison
had first proposed patent protection on August 18. Learn more about his involvement with patents and
the Patent Office in “Patently Madison.”
https://www.montpelier.org/learn/patently-madison
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Marion duPont Scott, the last private owner of #Montpelier, died at home #OTD in 1983, at the age of 89.
In her will, Mrs. Scott expressed a desire that her heirs would transfer Montpelier to The National Trust for Historic Preservation so that it could be restored & furnished to the time period of #JamesMadison.
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On Labor Day we pause to remember enslaved laborers at Montpelier.
Read about some of the many ways those enslaved at Montpelier contributed to the successes of the Madisons and the plantation, https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/04/09/putting-people-in-the-picture/?utm_content=buffer5164b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of #JamesMadison’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.
Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.
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The documentary record shows us Henry near the beginning and near the end of his life.
It doesn’t tell us what happened in between.
Read more at #MontpelierNamingProject.
🔗https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2021/03/22/the-naming-project-henry/?utm_content=bufferdad7e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Tomorrow kicks off Montpelier's 2nd annual #Constitution Month!
Throughout Sept. we will be releasing a new #podcast series, host #expert panels, Constitution and #BillofRights tours & on-site activities.
Guests can visit Montpelier for free on Constitution Day, Sept. 16th!
Discover all of our #ConstitutionMonth happenings here, https://buff.ly/4814JJd
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#OTD 1787 Charles Pinkney moved “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the authority of the U. States." Federal officials wouldn't have to pledge belief in God, Christianity, or Protestantism.
The flight into Egypt, MF2016.24.3, The Montpelier Collection.
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#OTD at the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Pierce Butler proposed what became known as the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring the return of any enslaved person who escaped to another state.
Weeks earlier, Madison wrote his father, speculating on the whereabouts of escaped slave Anthony.
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In late #summer, 1786 Western #Massachusetts #farmers began an armed #rebellion.
Learn more about #ShaysRebellion in this Madison Moment, Episode 4, by From Memory Films, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.
https://youtu.be/sY0Ad5sTsic?si=ou0aENmkf2IpzF8n
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This morning, while digging a pod of shovel test pits at the Overseers House on the Home Farm, one of our field interns Alyssa came upon this great example of a coat button with the shank still intact!
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Join Architectural Tech. Tessa, for Sept's Lunch & Learn on Wed., Sept. 13th!
Take a deep dive into the use & #restoration of the rooms on the 1st floor of Montpelier using the #3Dmodel of the house.
Register for this #free program, https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkdeygpjMpEtH4HCcb81w1br3SZn_2YqFW?utm_content=buffer215c4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer#/registration
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JMMontpelier · @JMMontpelier
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#OTD 1844, #DolleyMadison’s son John Payne Todd sold 9 #enslaved ppl to Henry Moncure, the new owner of #Montpelier.
Among them were 2 yr old Elizabeth, her brother Caleb, her mother Charlotte, and her uncle Edwin.
Read what we know about Elizabeth at #MontpelierNamingProject. 🔗 https://digitaldoorway.montpelier.org/2020/09/22/the-naming-project-elizabeth/?utm_content=bufferc2f4f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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View of the #BlueRidgeMountains from a cellar window at #Montpelier.
Dulcey Fuqua Photography, courtesy of The Montpelier Foundation.
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